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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 10 | October 2017

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IPV To Demo Cloud-Based
Editing Capabilities
M

edia management technology
specialist IPV will present
its latest advanced production
management and remote editing tools
at NAB Show New York.
Visitors to the booth will discover
how
IPV's
in-demand
Curator
platform can make using the cloud
a reality for production and creative
services through its unique proxybased workflows. They will also gain
valuable insight into which type of
MAM deployment - hosted service,
cloud-based platform, on-premises
installation or a hybrid of them all - is
right for them.
More IPV MAM solutions have
been deployed in North America
than anywhere else in the world, as
forward-thinking organisations that
own and produce content recognise
the benefits of being able to easily
use or re-use media assets in fast
turnaround workflows such as sports.
This is particularly relevant as the focus

shifts from the management of single
assets to complete creative services
workflows for entire productions,
incorporating the required elements
such as video graphics and effects.
"North America is our biggest
market, and we have many high-profile
clients that are using our Curator
platform including Hearst, The Golf
Channel, Turner, Home Depot, AMPAS,
A+E, NASA, and Monster Energy, so it's
important that we're present at a key
industry gathering like NAB Show New
York," said Dave Cole, IPV's CEO. "With
the growing amount of assets that
broadcasters, sports organisations,
and enterprises are creating, it's
never been more important to have a
streamlined asset management system
such as Curator. If a content owner
cannot search for and find its valuable
assets, then it may as well not have
them."
The Curator platform arrives at
NAB Show New York with increased

functionality for editors,
following recent highprofile integrations with
Adobe Premiere Pro and
After Effects, and Avid.
From hosted services to
SaaS, subscription, and
on-prem & off-prem to
the more typical hybrid
approach, IPV's MAM
solutions allow editing
from the Cloud to live
production. By registering
content from any location, proxies are
created and shared geographically
across a distributed workforce. This
means that multiple copies of high
resolution are avoided and access to
assets made available to everyone in
the team.
As the amount of content being
created continues to grow, so does
the need to be able to manage, find
and retrieve it easily. New third party
cognitive services based on artificial

Dave Cole,
IPV CEO

intelligence are set to revolutionise
metadata tagging, which was once a
labour-intensive task.
Available through IPV's Curator
platform, this emerging technology
augments the logging and annotation
of content as well as the use of
controlled and cleaned vocabulary to
ultimately make finding content much
simpler. These AI advancements will be
on show on the IPV booth throughout
NAB Show New York.

Shotoku USA's First Time
At NAB Show New York
S

hotoku Broadcast Systems will
demonstrate its dedication to the
North American market in general, and
the Northeastern US in particular, by
exhibiting at NAB NY 2017 for the first
time.
The manufacturer will showcase its
range of popular robotic pan/tilt heads,
height drives and control systems at
the show.
The announcement to exhibit at
the New York-based show follows the
NAB 2017 launch of Shotoku USA, a
subsidiary founded to support the
organisation's
already
significant
and growing customer-base in North
America. Shotoku USA support
operations are headquartered in New
York State with a satellite office located
in Atlanta Georgia.
"We are so excited to have a
dedicated team in place in the US,
supporting customers with the finest
technology, highest quality service,
and most reliable gear available,"

said James Eddershaw, Managing
Director of Shotoku UK. "Many, many
Northeastern US broadcasters have
long enjoyed Shotoku systems and
we are pleased to bring our widelyembraced solutions to their doorstep.
But we also want to drive home the
point that Shotoku USA was launched
to bring our well-known exceptional
sales and service on a local level, and
that means being available to our
customers and potential customers at
important regional shows such as NAB
NY."
Matt Servis, Robotics Support
Specialist - North America, and Andy
Parsons, US Robotics Specialist,
will represent Shotoku USA at the
show. The two will conduct product
demos and talk to visitors about the
Company's on-going expansion in the
American market.
Eddershaw added: "We carefully
chose products and systems to
demonstrate at NAB NY that illustrate

Shotoku's ability to help broadcasters
and legislative organisations achieve
superior production values while
reducing costs."
Shotoku's robotic pan/tilt head
series will be represented by the TG-18
that combines high-accuracy, smooth
movement, silent operation and high
payload with a full manual override
capability. The TG-18 will be joined by
the small, lightweight TG-27 head, ideal
for parliaments, legislatures and small
TV studios.
The company will also show
its height drive capabilities via
the cost-effective Ti-11 fully
integrated elevating column for
robotic applications such as weather
studios, news-desks and other openarea camera positions where manual
operation is not a primary requirement.
Shotoku's flagship TR-XT Touch
Control System will be at the show
illustrating the Company's ability
to provide a robotic camera control

Shotoku Ti-11 column
with TG-18 head

system that incorporates
unique
features
and
flexibility including pre-set shot recall
functionality.
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